On Tueday, October 18, 2005 @ 5:06 AM, Hans du Plooy wrote:
On Tuesday 18 October 2005 14:57, Greg Wallace wrote:
I didn't think about the fact he might have some free space in between if the swap is first. That would certainly make it easier. And adding a second swap wouldn't seem to be too hard either. Is having 2 swaps equivalent to the size of one more or less a wash performance wise?
The only performance difference you'll see with two swap partitions is what
you get anyway between different parts of the discs, and these days that's hardly noticeable.
If the second swap partition is on a different disc, that would make a bigger difference.
Two swap partitions on two separate discs work well. All the servers I've built with two discs in a software raid-1, have the two swap partitions separately instead of a md device (no point in that).
Hans
Thanks for the info. Sounds like this may be a good option for him. Greg W